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OF THE WEEK
“I really think we should be in. 1 don’t
care if we’ve lost eight of our last 11. We
have 19 wins, and there’s a lot of teams get
ting in with 16 and 17.”
—Nebraska Women’s Basketball Coach
Angela Beck last Friday on NU’s prospects
for the NCAA Tournament
“Everyone is granted with the gift of
humor. It’s just that some people don’t open
the package.”
— T. Mami Vos, comedian
“I’m shocked at the Iowa State situa
tion. I think head-to-head we would beat
them anytime. Iowa State over Nebraska
doesn’t make sense to me.”
—Beck after the Huskers’ non-invite to
the NCAA Tournament
“It’s kind of like we’re defending the
title.”
— Cookie Belcher, freshman guard, on
the Huskers’ playing in the NIT
“All of the sudden, I heard about five “
or six shots — pow, pow, pow, pow, pow.”
— Robert Payne, security guard, who
heard the gunfire involved in the slaying of
gansta rapper Notorious B.I.G.
“There’s nothing you can’t tell your
parents. Sure, they’re going to get frus
trated and angry, but at the same time,
they’re always going to love you no matter
what.”
—Kim Coffeen, former UNL freshman,
who gave birth in her residence hall room
“We’re not running from what’s real.
The rappers that make it out of the ghetto
are talking about the same thing.”
— Antone Douglas, also know as All
Ayz, rap artist from Omaha
“If we let this go on ... we’re going to
dig a hole so deep that I don’t know how
we’ll get out of it.”
— Sen. Don Wesley of Lincoln on why
the state needs to ensure building maintenance
in the university system does not lag
“Rock ‘n’ roll never sleeps, and it never
dies.”
— Wesley Willis, musician
“They can do it seven days a week, 24
hours a day, right from their home.”
— Bruce Morrison, electronic filing co
ordinator, on use of TeleFile, an alternative
to traditional mail-in tax returns
“This is dominance. It shows that
people who work hard in ASUN get what
they deserve.”
— Malcom Kass, ADVANCE 2nd vice
president-elect
“I’ve won at every level of football. It
would be hard for me to go to a team where
all they care about is making money.”
— Jon Hesse, former Nebraska line
backer
“Woo, hoo, hoo!”
— Jabba the Hutt
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HJERSMAN
Mothering a mission
Women’s Studies not to be ignored
As I stood in the doorway of room
338 in the Nebraska Union Thursday
afternoon listening to Professor
Moira Ferguson discuss the history
of the Women’s Studies program at
UNL, it struck me how cramped the
quarters were.
About 50 people—most of them
youngish women—had convened in
a room not much larger than a walk
in closet to celebrate Women’s Week
and discuss the past, present and
future of a program that is doing all it
can to reverse the mentality that has
belittled or altogether ignored
women’s contributions to academia
for far too long.
How ironic that our discussion
was relegated to an out-of-the-way
room on the third floor of the union,
I thought..
UNL’s Women’s Studies program
was conceived in the spring of 1976
and has been in a period of gestation
for more than 20 years.
And, if you ask me, this baby is
ready to break out and see the light
of day!
Unfortunately, the university
system continues to deny that it has
fathered a curriculum almost
completely devoid of non-white,
non-male perspectives. It has failed
M
I am acutely aware
of the injustices that
many women
encounter daily, and
I have the utmost
respect for any
woman who is
willing to take that
bull(shit) by the
horns”
to support the Women’s Studies
program financially or otherwise.
I probably sound ungrateful.
That’s because I am.
I am not what most people would
call an “activist.” I don’t attend
rallies, and I have never spearheaded
any movements. In fact, I have taken
only one class that would be consid
ered a part of the Women’s Studies
program here at UNL.
Nonetheless, I am acutely aware
of the injustices that many women
encounter daily, and I have the
utmost respect for any woman who is
willing to take that bull(shit) by the
horns.
Yes, I appreciate the fact that the
university gives (token) recognition
to Women’s Week. Yes, I am aware
that some universities don’t even
have women’s studies programs.
The truth is, I resent the fact that
there is a need for such programs —
that women’s accomplishments have
not been deemed worthy of academic
attention before now. And I refuse to
be satisfied with the “We gave you a
room, what more do you want?”
attitude that some people in power at
this university have dished out.
The Women’s Studies program
currently offers 40 courses in 11
departments. It offers an undergradu
ate major and minor. And it is
estimated that 500 students enroll in
Women’s Studies courses each
semester.
Yet, I would bet rally a small
number of people on this campus
know the program exists—and even
fewer know where to find its main
(and only) office. It gets no money,
little attention and scant credibility —^
from the powers that be.
As of now, the Women’s Studies
program at UNL is being nurtured by
a few dedicated faculty members
whose only payment cranes in the
hope that someday their efforts will
be taken seriously by the university
atlarge.
It’s been a long and laborious 20
years for the program’s foremothers,
but Women’s Studies is alive and
kicking at UNL.
You’ve come a long way, baby.
Now let’s just hope the university
will help you get on your feet
financially.
Hjersman is a senior news
editorial and English major and
the night editor and a columnist
for the Daily Nebraskan.
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